bpicolo

10 ms·

91.
by bpicolo 2y ago
Because they're python libraries that just wrap C and C++. All the performance upside with better ergonomics
92.
by bpicolo 2y ago
Isn't it made by a Danish company?
93.
by bpicolo 3y ago
The one I can think of is tuning circuit breakers so that failures are additive but successes decrease more multiplicatively/exponentially, which helps with fast recovery. That’s more dividing than multiplying though
94.
by bpicolo 3y ago
Probably because it’s not a particularly common real world need. Have you ever found yourself grasping for a multiply command in a cache?
95.
by bpicolo 3y ago
Seems to specifically include them? https://media.defense.gov/2023/Apr/27/2003210083/-1/-1/0/CSI...
96.
by bpicolo 3y ago
Jumping back and forth between a JSON schema and writing valid JSON is not a very fun task
97.
by bpicolo 3y ago
Metzen is actually back on WoW as of recently.
98.
by bpicolo 3y ago
I dream of a day there's a physical component of my job, not just the staring at a screen bit.
99.
by bpicolo 3y ago
Damn I really loved Soul
100.
by bpicolo 3y ago
It makes sense that retrofitting is expensive - that's labor and plane downtime for 5-7k commercial jets. This airplane was brand new. It should be using something more modern.
101.
by bpicolo 3y ago
There are studies that have found more women is a helpful thing in the workplace https://hbr.org/2011/06/defend-your-research-what-makes-a-te...
102.
by bpicolo 3y ago
It could also let your clients do proactive validation without rewriting too much code, seems like?
103.
by bpicolo 3y ago
> two old 6-core Xeon CPUs in it Unless electricity is free, probably gonna spend more on electricity than they're making in monero (or any other coin).
104.
by bpicolo 3y ago
https://nypost.com/2023/12/01/business/uber-doordash-and-gru...
105.
by bpicolo 3y ago
Making potions infinite with a cooldown usually does the trick. After that, it's a space scarcity and balancing act - how many potions can I have on hand? How powerful are they for my character at their current level of progress? I thi
106.
by bpicolo 3y ago
“You will be taking on project <x>” seems fairly non-abrasive
107.
by bpicolo 3y ago
This definitely may have destroyed the career of a large number of widely popular youtubers... It certainly destroyed their format anyway. Imagine they'll hop to a different platform.
108.
by bpicolo 3y ago
> Between 2010 and 2022, China’s GDP more than doubled, overtaking that of the U.S I’m confused - I don’t see evidence that China’s GDP has overtaken the US’s at any point in time.
109.
by bpicolo 3y ago
Perhaps not, but not such a far cry from squid ink in pasta in terms of intended effect eh
110.
by bpicolo 3y ago
> in Italian pasta with seaweed mixed All the rage at Italian/Japanese fusion joints (and honestly in Japan too - Japan loves pasta)
111.
by bpicolo 3y ago
I'm surprised the RLE example shows an improvement with RLE if you fill the entire artboard. Seems like it's only an improvement if there are null entries. Why does a completely full art board benefit from RLE that only tracks nul
112.
by bpicolo 3y ago
There’s nobody I and friends have been more consistently scammed by than taxi drivers in foreign countries. Uber and ilk have dramatically improved trust and safety of vacation travel. That’s big
113.
by bpicolo 3y ago
They could also just call out to web services with cellular internet.
114.
by bpicolo 3y ago
Conversion rate, or velocity? I might expect people that click ads to have worse conversion that other traffic sources. The hope is that volume overcomes that?
115.
by bpicolo 3y ago
The signals they get from you including that library are a big part of what makes the fraud detection effective
116.
by bpicolo 3y ago
I've been really enjoying voice controls for my lights. It's not always more convenient than my lights, but overall I like the experience. With Apple TV + a home pod I also get a fair bit of TV control with my voice which is nice.
117.
by bpicolo 3y ago
Publicly traded law firms aren't currently a thing in the US, because non-lawyer ownership (or in this case, partial ownership) of law firms has been against legal ethics codes for a long time: https://www.reuters.com/l
118.
by bpicolo 3y ago
For me there's a big difference between that and 6-8 hours of remote video calls in a day. Video calls are both mentally exhausting for me and highly unengaging.
119.
by bpicolo 3y ago
Drones?
120.
by bpicolo 3y ago
For the top 1%, I suspect one of the biggest differentiators is "write a lot of code". On and off the clock. Working hard / practicing a discipline goes a very long way

More ›